January 10, 2013

ADDED: In the comments, Mary Beth said: "I'm surprised, and a little let down, that this post didn't also have a history of the phrase 'hog wild.'" Thanks for missing the kind of Althouse extras that I really do love to provide. And here they are. The OED has this:

hog-wildadj. U.S. completely wild or unrestrained; crazy (chiefly in to go hog-wild).

1893 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 11 Mar. 4/3 The state of Kansas has gone ‘hog wild’.
1940 C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter i. ii. 26 This here white man had just gone hog wild. He were butting his head against the side of this brick wall.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 3 Feb. 82/1 New York City Ballet went hog-wild with promotions on January 22.

And here's a graph of the history of the use of "hog wild." For some reason, it spiked in 1942 and 1963. WW2 and the Kennedy assassination. Big events in those years. Any number of reasons to turn to "hog wild."

45 comments:

Anonymous
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You don't always serve the citizenry best just by spending more money. It's important to have a real discussion about what government should do, what it shouldn't do, and what is the best way to do it for the least amount of money. That's what government should be about.

There are lots of people that will want to move north out of Illinois if they lower taxes.

bpm - do those people who want to move ever lay out all the numbers on a spreadsheet to see if a reduce income tax rate would make up for the cost of moving? Or consider the fact that they need to find a job first in Wisconsin and how much would it cost to do that?

MADISON — The last we heard, Gogebic Taconite LLC – the company that proposed a $1.5 billion iron ore mining operation in northern Wisconsin — was leaving the state.

“Wisconsin will not welcome iron mining. We get the message,” CEO Bill Williams said in a statement after the state Senate failed to pass mining regulation reform last March. “GTAC is ending plans to invest in a Wisconsin mine.”

"Ever heard of SB3341?" is Rick Santelli's opening salvo in today's rantless discussion of the concerns he has with Illinois' 'Precious Metal Purchasing Act'. While passed in the Illinois Senate last year, and moth-balled in the House since, Rick notes that "the long and short of it is is they want an audit trail to any precious metals, whether you're talking coins or bullion." It does not seem too much of a stretch to this Chicagoan to the 1933 Executive Order #6102 that confiscated gold and cleared the way eventually for Nixon's 1971 disconnect of the dollar from gold. As Liberty Blitzkrieg's Mike Krieger notes: "So let me get this straight. First they want gun registration and now precious metal registration? I’m sure the government would only use such information in our best interests, because as we all know: Your Government Loves You. Sounds reasonable, after all, only 'terrorists' buy guns and gold anyway."

...Provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall obtain a proof of ownership, create a record of the sale, and verify the identity of the seller. Provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall not pay for the precious metal in cash and shall record the method of payment.

Requires the purchaser to keep a record of the sale for one year or, if the purchase amount is over $500, for 5 years.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere raise taxes on individuals earning over $400,000 or couples earning over $450,000. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out.

My property taxes went down. Thank you Gov. Walker. It will take time for this current administration to convince business to stay and to relocate to WI. This anti-mining thing isn't brought on by Walker. There are other things going on that are anti-business, and none of them are brought on by Walker. There is a lot of house cleaning that needs to be done before WI is the pro-business state that it can be. It ain't going to be easy.

...Broken out by private-sector manufacturing jobs, Wisconsin ranks 20th in terms of job creation. Its increase of 11,788 new production jobs, for a gain of 2.6%, means Wisconsin trails Michigan (5.2% or 26,774); Indiana (4.3% or 20,298); and Ohio (3.9% or 24,648)....

Alex, a lot of companies that move pull out very detailed spreadsheets on costs of relocating. The funny corelation is high taxes seems to inflate all business costs (fuel, water, land, labor, electricity) which makes for more expensive operating costs. Walker seems to understand that and IL governing class not-so-much.

Funny you should ask about that today, 'cause another one of his aides was just sentenced for the crimes she committed while working for him.

Here is a post from another blog that explains what will most likely be happening in the upcoming months. Tho, I agree with 'em that Walker may not be "John Doe", and instead he might roll-over on someone else higher up...

The Fairtax is something I can live with. One side benefit is it is simple so the average person can understand it. That simplicity also means less ability for politicians to add sweetners for their donors.

I haven't listened to Limbaugh for a while so I'm not as up-to-date on the slang some folks like to use...(It took me a long time before I realized that "Little Black Jesus" was a reference to our President rather than one of our fellow commentators! lol)...and Wiki makes it even more confusing.

If it is a reference to jail time, well then you should know that things have changed since you were last in. Inmates don't get much ham anymore; the sandwiches are baloney.

Gov. Jindal has proposed eliminating all state income tax and replacing it with a 7% sales tax.

Damn fine idea. Tennessee already has a similar arrangement and it works well. It's fair. No loopholes, and the more you earn, the more you pay, most likely.

I suspect the fear is that the income tax comes back at some point in the future, and then you're left with both income and sales. After all, the people who want to get rid of the Income Tax and replace it with Sales aren't going to be in power forever.